For the last 100 years or so kids have been exploring and creating worlds of color with Crayons. For a lot of us, our life long love affairs with color began with these wax sticks and a blank sheet of paper. According to a Yale University study, the scent of Crayola crayons is among the 20 most recognizable to American adults. Coffee and peanut butter are 1 and 2. Here we go down crayon color memory lane with all 120 color names and hex codes, fun facts and photos.
Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver. Although Crayola crayons come in 120 different colors, the labels are only made in 18, which cover the full color spectrum. Nearly 3 billion crayons are made each year, an average of 12 million daily. That's enough to circle the globe 6 times with color!
120 Crayon Names and Color Codes
Aaron at ColorSchemer.com created a fun list of all 120 Crayon Colors with their hex codes and RGB values. "All of these colors are rough approximations from Crayola’s current list of 120 Crayon Colors. -CS"
The first box of Crayola crayons was sold in 1903 for a nickel and included the same colors available in the eight-count box today: red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown.
Most Crayola crayon color names are taken from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Bureau of Standards book called "Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names." Many crayon names are also borrowed from traditional artists' paints.
The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his 10th birthday (or 11.4 boxes of 64s). Kids, ages 2-8, spend an average of 28 minutes each day colouring. Combined, children in the US spend 6.3 billion hours colouring annually, almost 10,000 human lifetimes!
Crayola crayon colour names rarely change. However, there are exceptions. In 1958, Prussian blue was changed to midnight blue in response to teacher recommendations that children could no longer relate to Prussian history. In 1962, the colour flesh was changed to peach recognizing that not everyone's flesh is the same shade.
The name Crayola was coined by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin, and a former school teacher. She combined the words craie, which is French for chalk, and ola, for oleaginous, because crayons are made from petroleum based paraffin.
how great! Now I want to go home and color... I know just reading this made me remember how they smell... one of my favorite childhood smells :D (I love your photo, lostmy!!!)
When I was little, I used to play with my crayons like they were people. They had genders and everything and had crushes on other colors. Did anybody else do this? XDD
Also, I had the hardest time saying "cadet blue" because I always wanted to read it like you'd say "caddy" .. Cad-it.
I color picked the hex from the Crayola page. Now we need to figure out what they were.
Awesome #FF2052
Giving Tree #21E339
Famous #E72094
Fun in the Sun #FF5500
Best Friends #D600FF
Super Happy #FFFF21
Happy Ever After #218EB5
Bear Hug #6B655A
Login To Vote 1 15 Marijuana Green
Login To Vote 2 13 Micheal Jackson Black
Login To Vote 3 10 Yeast Infection Yellow
Login To Vote 4 1 Sewage Green
Login To Vote 5 -7 Cold Pink
Login To Vote 6 -12 Dirty Peach
Login To Vote 7 -12 Vitiligo White
found in a diaper gold
Mc Donald's burger gray
Los Angeles air brown
klan white
flu phlegm green
spousal abuse black
spousal abuse blue
spank me pink
melanoma tan
time 'o the month
tin man's johnson silver
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Rejected Color Names for Crayola Brand Crayons
Dead Tooth Grey
Yeast Infection Yellow
Grampa's Brass Eye Bronze
Rough Sex Red
Pug Dick Pink
Wifey's Cuban Gigolo Tan
Camel Ass Camel
First Date Balls Blue
Mommy "fell down the stairs and hurt her eye" Purple
Power White
Jesus Black
posted by Shawnfromthematches at 11:03 PM
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the 64-crayon box, Crayola is tarnishing its sacred traditions with eight "newly named colors," supposedly selected by kids, most likely kids who eat crayons. The new names? "Super Happy (yellow), Fun in the Sun (orange), Giving Tree (green), Bear Hug (brown), Awesome (dusty pink), Happy Ever After (blue), Famous (hot pink) and Best Friends (purple)." Oh god, "Super Happy"? "Famous"??? Yeesh. Do not want. Some rejected crayon names, after the jump:
Thank you!!! This is my favorite post ever :D I bought a new box of Crayolas a few years ago, the 120 box, and promptly put it in order by color. My love for crayons will never die :)
dangit! i did several crayola palettes about a month ago but i can't remember what i called them and i can't find them. :( i love this blog article, though, and crayola!
I LIVED for my crayons when I was a kid. I loved making the same drawings with different shades of the same colors, just so I could see how horribly differently they turned out!
I'm really drawn to some of the new, darker colors, like "Outer Space", "Shadow", and "Beaver". I look at them and think, "Wow, when the hell did Crayola decide to go for subtlety?!" Very nice!
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for crayons. I was looking for an old pack on 94 this morning a had. Sadly, I couldn't find them. They must be long gone.
Thank you so much for the information. I didn't know that there were so many colours. Wonder how many of the colours on COLOURlover match the Crayola ones. What a fascinating read!
retsof, I am just loving those names. There should be a mature or adult crayon box. I would buy it. Haha. Damn, I want to get out my crayons right now and just draw for hours. I really need to go out and buy some! A big pack too!!!
Excelent post, I loved my crayons when I was a kid. For all you Photoshop designers out there I put together a color palatte of all 120 colors, it is in the update portion of the post linked below.
oh my goodness, I had 2 cases of crayons when I was little. I wouldn't share, I was just a crayon hog! oh man those were the days.. I think I need to go out and buy some for tonight
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